indigente

Definitions of indigente
  1. noun
    someone who sleeps in any convenient place
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    type of:
    atorrante, polizón, vagabundo, vago
    a disreputable vagrant
  2. noun
    a person who is very poor
    synonyms: pelado, pobretón
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    examples:
    Lázaro
    the diseased beggar in Jesus' parable of the rich man and the beggar
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    mendicante, mendigo
    a pauper who lives by begging
    derrelicto
    a person without a home, job, or property
    muerto de hambre
    someone who is starving (or being starved)
    buitre, chupón, chupóptero, gorrón, sableador, sablista
    someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
    type of:
    marginado, pobre
    a person with few or no possessions
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